[jtallant]

>No. If you are all that and you can PROVE it, colleges are the cheapest way to get educated in that amount of time. You do have to take time to consideration. You dont want to spend a year doing Analysis if you could take the hardcore route in college.

I still disagree that colleges are the cheapest way to get educated in that amount of time. Due to the structure of the curriculum it's impossible to avoid taking in unnecessary amounts of useless information. So I guess agree to disagree in that aspect.

>No. If you are all that and you can PROVE it, colleges are the cheapest way to get educated in that amount of time. You do have to take time to consideration. You dont want to spend a year doing Analysis if you could take the hardcore route in college.

If I wasn't ignorant high school I might agree with you here. I didn't even have the sense to think about proving myself then and now I just don't see the sense in wasting the time to prove to an educational organization that I am worthy when I can just go about making myself worthy on my own and start getting paid.

>You should have looked for schools that had better programs. You should have tried to get some research experience so that you could work on hard problems in those schools. You should have developed a credential and ability that would make the school of your dream fund you without a blink of an eye.

You are absolutely right I should have and wish I did. But again, now that I didn't do that stuff in high school I still feel at this point the best thing to do is cut my losses, stop the inefficiency and the accumulation of debt and start putting those specific skills for which I am most likely to get paid for.